Continually read posts about broken frames and it got me thinking. I've had dozen's of bikes and not one frame failure.
Am I a statistical oddity that doesn't push his bikes to 'THE MAX!!'?
I've just my road frame back after the rear mech cable stop cracked, does that count?
Nope...probably because they're not ridden enough or hard enough...or I'm just lucky
My Explosif when a car hit it and my Gary Fisher Rig at the seattube just riding along.
Nope, never broken one.
Only the one - head-tube snapped off. It was a v old steel frame, so presume it was just fatigue, and not gnarmaxdude riding. Was jra anyway.
Eat more cake
I've just bust my Cube XC Pro on the chainstay but it was 12 years old so I reckon that doesn't count
@steve_b77, sorry but you've obviously been riding to the 'MAX!!' to do that kind of damage. Go away!!
Not broken a frame in nearly 3 decades despite being hit by two cars and weighing considerably more than any cyclist reasonably should. Then again I generally don't break things in any part of my life, stuff lasts me for years.
My steel 1990 or similar Stumpjumper got side-swiped by a car (when I was on it). As far as I could tell there was a bit dent in the downtime, carried on riding it - many months later (maybe a year!) it started creaking and I realised the dent had rusted into a rather nasty crack around the downtime, off to the skip it went 🙁
Nope, never broke a frame and I'm a fat knacker!
Broke frame & forks "competing" for the sane corner with another rider but never thru fatigue
Had a mad spell about 17 years ago.
1x Marin Palisades trail.
1x GT bump bmx, the crack ran about 5 inches down the down tube. How I did it & how long it was there I don't know
2x sets manitou forks.
1x mavic d521
1x set of Azonic raiser bars.
Quite an expensive year considering I was still at school
Not snapped anything since. But stuff back then was poor.
Everyone I ride with has done at least 1 frame.
Broken 2.
Santa Cruz heckler, broke at pivot.
Kona Caldera, broke at headset.
I am the least gnar person in the world.
An old steel lava dome snapped unspectacularly at the drop out, had 4 other ali frames develop cracks, only one I think* I heard "go" the rest I just noticed some time after the event (2 replaced on warranty). I've also managed to stick a bloody great dent in my scaffold pole tubed inbred, no idea how but it kept on going, currently sidelined but ready to go if needed. 2 bikes mangled after car interfaces (both subsequently replaced at no cost to me).
So my form is probably a lot worse than average but reckon I've got off fairly lightly injury/cost wise.
*could have been a rock hitting the downtube
Not for many a moon.
Did break 3 Trek Y22's, 2 at the headtube and 1 and the seatpost sleeve, also blew the rear shock and cracked the shock mount on a Giant ATX1 DH years ago.
Im less rad to the power of sick now tho, perhaps I ride lighter now and skip over or round the real rough stuff to maintain speed!
Nope, again, wierd considering I'm a fatty.
But most of my bikes have been steel HT's rather than anything light.
I've just cursed myself haven't i? Scurries off to check frame.
Nope, again, wierd considering I'm a fatty.
+1
Broke a dyna tech (diabalo?) frame a very long time ago. Snapped clean through a ding on the down tube. Took three years to fail including two Malverns dual slaloms and a fortnight in whistler, so can't really complain.
Another fatty here who's never broken a frame. I think people do it on purpose so the missus will let them have a new bike!!
Cracked a pair of chainstays, and had a frame fail, but it was more bad design (shock body hit underside of top tube on full compression) than anything else.
Not me... Snapped my Rocket on the top tube and the down tube. Basically folded the thing in half.
Me. Unless you count my sister's Raleigh Domino that I broke when I was about 5. Snapped clean in two, I'm not sure it appreciated my attempts at manualing it.
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Not once, Not even my Grifter when used as a Bmx!
And I stack it good when I do!
Never broken a frame. Broken pretty much every component that attaches to a frame over the years, but never an actual frame.
Me neither.
Haven't kept one long enough in recent years if I'm honest, as I know two cracked with their second owners.
Won't be changing for a while now though, so watch this space.
🙂
Never broken a frame but I have put a massive dent which is just waiting to fail in your old 456's top tube sandwicheater!
Nope. Not broken. Flaring a head tube is the closest I've got.
Had it filled and ring reinforced, still riding it 10 years later.
Did break 3 Trek Y22's,
That takes me back to the days i had a Klien Mantra Pro .
I didn't break it though , it was nicked.
1 x Palisades Trail (1994 model) a few Mount Vision swing arms, Whyte PRST1 & 4 frames, Whyte E5 frame, all higher than average mileage and brilliant warranty support from ATB sales via my LBS.
No, never.
I maul wheels, but that's about it.
Nope,nearest I've got is putting a dent in the downtube of my Speccy Enduro 7 or 8 years ago at Morzine.Nothing Gnarr or Rad,the front wheel flicked a rock up...
Titanium Litespeed, cracked.
A fair few carbon bikes, no probs at all 🙂
Yeah I loved the Y22's but they appear to me made of carbon fibre equal on strength to a crisp.
Landed a jump at the local BMX track and the front end went a different way to the rest of the bike, the other was during a race on a downhill section, came round the corner and down a 1.5 foot drop straight into a tree.. I was apparently riding to quick for the section and overshot the corner. The other just cracked at the seat tube when out riding. Trek rep eventually offered me a nice hardtail instead.
The ATX incident happened when out mucking about and jumping some stairs.. When the Giant rep asked what happened.. "I was just riding it normally down a hill and it blew and cracked"..
Not sure he believed me.. The perks of working in a bike shop many years ago!
This is not a brag but I've broken 5, all full suspension , and not because I'm a hero, just through hard riding. Tomac 98, 2x Whyte E5, Intense Tracer, Asr5. Steel hardtails for me from now on!!
I think I balance out- I've broken one frame, but I bought a broken frame and fixed it.
But the one I broke, I [i]really [/i] broke, every major frame component. In order chainstay, rocker, main axle, front triangle, seatstay.
Broken 3 hardtails and 1 full suss
Got a crash replacement on one had 2 steel hardtails welded up and got a new swingarm for the full suss
Out of seven frames/bikes I've cracked one. I'm not gnar enough obvs.
I've had a fair run of broken frames over the years, FWIW, I only weigh 76Kg, most of them have failed through fatigue rather than SuperGnar! (tm), except the Specialized, I'm quite proud of that 🙂
[b]Trek 6000 [/b](alu) - cracked chainstay
[b]Specialized M2[/b] (alu) - headtube cracked while gap jumping stairs at Red Bull Beat the Streets and didn't notice, it then finally parted company with the top tube when I crashed into the back of friend in the woods, he escaped with a bent rear mech hanger 🙁
[b]Sunn Duall[/b] (alu) - chainstay snapped, replaced, then cracked front end
[b]Orange Zero[/b] (alu) - cracked chainstay
[b]Rocket Pro Trials [/b](steel) - dropout/disc mount/seatstay snapped
[b]Pashely 26Mhz[/b] (steel)- snapped brake mounts
[b]Kona Kilauea [/b](steel) - cracked top tube AND seat tube
[b]1st Schwinn 4 Banger[/b] (alu) - cracked top tube/headtube
[b]2nd Schwinn 4 Banger [/b](alu) - cracked pivot/seat tube (still in use by a lightweight female rider now and hasn't progressed in a couple of years so should be OK!)
[b]Schwinn Straight 6 [/b](alu) - cracked pivot/seat tube
[b]Ellsworth Dare [/b](alu) - cracked gussets (ooh er!) and headtube/downtube join
[b]Kona A [/b](alu) - snapped BB/Pivot
[b]Carbon Frame of Dubious Origin[/b] - might have a cracked seatstay, might just be top cosmetic layer, too hard to tell and not bothered enough to care. Will keep riding and see what happens...
Haven't done one for about a year or so....and never done a fork
You have to kind of accept that even the frame is a consumable part to some degree and won't last forever if ridden a lot.
Broken/cracked every bike frame I've owned since the seventies, except an early nineties specialized sport rock I sold before I broke it and a random bso that was stolen. Most recently a Santacruz bullit that died doing the megavalance. In my defence I keep my bikes till they die as I hate selling them.
I broke one bike three times, does that count? Orange ST4 - still the best riding bike I have owned.
amedias makes me feel better.
3 frames in important places, one V brake stud ripped off an old steel framed trek, and a couple of frames/forks bent in crashes.
I'm reasonably heavy and pedal quite hard, not all that rad^gnar really.
I've broken one (which Canyon were ace in sorting). I've not broken all the others.